Alexei Kolesnikov came to motorsport from BMX at the age of 12. Starting off racing motocross on his Kawasaki KW, he gradually gained experience and began to participate in multi-day enduro rallies, eventually becoming Russian champion in 2005. However, it was in that same year that Alexei first began to get into FMX. Despite the sport having almost no profile in Russia at the time, Alexei defied the lack of riders and tracks in the country to build his very own ramp and foam pit with friends in his home town of Kolomna near Moscow. The rest, as they say, is history.

Fast forward a few years and the situation has changed dramatically. Alexei's first taste of FMX fame came when the Red Bull X-Fighters touched down at Slane Castle in Ireland and he got to shake hands with living legends such as Travis Pastrana, Dani Torres, Matt Rebeaud and experience a professional course for the first time.

In 2009, Alex, along with Swede Daniel Bodin, Italian Vanni Oddera and his friend and disciple Kirill Gavrilov, took part in the Red Bull X-Fighters Jams held in four Russian cities: Omsk, Tyumen, Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd. The result? Alexei rocked the house and rode away with the overall win.

Kolesnikov can rightly be considered the founder of FMX in Russia and was also the first rider in the country to land a backflip. Today, Alex Kolesnikov - or 'Kalashnikov' as his friends call him - is ranked among top twenty riders on the planet and will be raring to push the best of the best of international elite to their limits when the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour 2010 hits Moscow!